Results 561-580 of 27,251 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Fees (27 Mar 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: If 5,000 undergraduates dropping out each year does not concern the Minister, he really needs to rethink his being the Minister for higher education. It is obvious that we have an urgent problem affecting our entire economy and society owing to the lack of skilled people, as well as the mental health issues and all the stress put on the students who drop out and their families. I suspect...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Fees (27 Mar 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills following the reduction to higher education student fees, if he will provide assurance that student fees will not rise again in the future; if he is considering fully abolishing further and higher education student fees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14941/25]
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Fees (27 Mar 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a suggestion for the Minister. It is to abolish all fees for third level and for apprenticeships. We have critical shortages in skills across our economy and across our society. It makes no sense to have fees. My question today particularly relates to the Union of Students in Ireland's concerns that not only is the Government not going to abolish fees, which it should, but it is...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Fees (27 Mar 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, the Minister comes in and then Deputy McGettigan gets to respond.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Fees (27 Mar 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is unusual for Priority Questions to be grouped.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Fees (27 Mar 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is unusual for Priority Questions to be grouped.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (27 Mar 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 22. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills following the recommendations in the National Review of State Supports for PhD Researchers, the plans to ensure that all PhD researchers, regardless of their funding source, receive at least €25,000 per annum stipend; his views on the issue of giving PhD researchers a worker status; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14502/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (27 Mar 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 52. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the additional measures he is planning to introduce to make apprenticeship programmes more attractive given the urgent need to increase the number of people qualified in the trades to address capacity issues; the plans to remove financial barriers to increase take-up of apprenticeships; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14501/25]
- Post European Council Meeting: Statements (26 Mar 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Do not worry, I will take your time.
- Post European Council Meeting: Statements (26 Mar 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Not if the impartial Chair gets his way.
- Post European Council Meeting: Statements (26 Mar 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: As they bomb Yemen, they are pushing Europe to spend more on defence. Is not the European Union dancing to the tune of the Trump Administration -----
- Post European Council Meeting: Statements (26 Mar 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----in its plans to ramp up military expenditure in Europe?
- Post European Council Meeting: Statements (26 Mar 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not an answer.
- Post European Council Meeting: Statements (26 Mar 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order, there are 20 minutes for questions and answers. If other people have questions, that is fine, but there is no strict time limit on this.
- Post European Council Meeting: Statements (26 Mar 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Fine, that is okay, but there is nobody else signalling and there are 12 minutes on the clock.
- Post European Council Meeting: Statements (26 Mar 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There was no need for the Acting Chair to try to -----
- Post European Council Meeting: Statements (26 Mar 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay, grand. No problem. I am quite happy to give way to Deputy Lahart for a second question but I will take my second question. I asked the Minister of State a question about Jeffrey Goldberg and The Atlantic and the reference, to use the words in the chat, to adding to the “horribles on why the Europeans must invest in their defense" in the context of attacks on Yemen. I just...
- Post European Council Meeting: Statements (26 Mar 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay. I just want to elaborate in order that people understand. They are saying that they are prompting the European Union to spend more on defence, which Ursula von der Leyen and this Council are promising to do, with the current EU expenditure on weapons, at €356 billion, more than doubling to €800 billion, in their interests. The same regime is threatening tariffs against...
- Post European Council Meeting: Statements (26 Mar 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Minister of State accept that any country in Europe that is providing weapons to Israel is guilty of complicity with genocide?
- Post European Council Meeting: Statements (26 Mar 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: When I spoke earlier, I asked the Minister of State whether this Government will stop facilitating the sale of Israeli war bonds through the Irish Central Bank. It is an absolute outrage that that is allowed. Maybe the Minister of State’s official can fill him in there. I am quite happy if the Minister of State wants to confer with them.